Currently to get going on Ubuntu 10.10 you'd do this:

apt-get install python2.7
apt-get install libsnmp
apt-get install mysql-client
apt-get install openldap

easy_install-2.7 pip

pip-2.7 install configobj		# Configuration parsing
pip-2.7 install nose				# Unit tests
pip-2.7 install plac				# Command line argument parsing
pip-2.7 install python-daemon # XXX replaced by supervisor?
pip-2.7 install python-ldap
pip-2.7 install pyasn
pip-2.7 install snmp
pip-2.7 install SqlAlchemy		# SQL ORM
pip-2.7 install bottle			# WSGI framework
pip-2.7 install gunicorn		# WSGI server
pip-2.7 install supervisor		# process supervisor

Compile from source:

- libzmq
- pyzmq